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Life Is Relatively Short

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-16-2016 08:21 AM

I moved away for 40 years so none of the people I know here will remember me as a smoker.

They will never know why I was anxious for a conversation to end so I could go smoke.

  

What about you? Will a key memory people have of you be that you were a smoker?

  

Will your physical body be ruined by smoking to the point your loved ones must devote their lives and energy to take care of you because you smoked?

  

Quitting smoking isn't rocket science.

  

You learn about how to quit and then you unlearn it.

  

Someone sent me a message last night about the loss of someone who influenced them greatly.

  

We must experience life without smoking through these emotional crises to earn our freedom.

  

This is living. Good days and bad.

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.